That's unchanged from two years ago when 13 percent of voters participated in November 2011.

Voters went to the polls Tuesday in Ann Arbor, Chelsea, Milan, Saline, Dexter, Saline Township and portions of the county where proposals from Ann Arbor Public Schools, Saline Area Schools and South Lyon Schools were on the ballot.

In Ann Arbor, interest in the election varied from ward to ward.

Turnout was lowest in the 1st Ward, where 9 percent of registered voters (1,747 out of 19,350) went to the polls.

Turnout was highest in Ann Arbor's 2nd Ward, where about 20 percent of voters (3,571 out of 18,917) cast ballots.

The second-highest turnout was in the 5th Ward where 15 percent of voters (3,418 out of 22,240) participated in the election.

In the 4th Ward, 11 percent (2,176 out of 19,889) made their voices heard. And in the 3rd Ward, turnout was 12 percent (2,259 out of 19,348).

By far the highest turnout for any individual precinct was in Ann Arbor's 2nd Ward, Precinct 5, where 34 percent of voters cast ballots.

That's Council Member Jane Lumm's home precinct and includes the neighborhood north of Washtenaw Avenue just east of the Stadium Boulevard split.

About 12 percent of voters in the Ann Arbor school district cast ballots. The vote was 13,321 to 3,259 in favor of renewing a tax for school building repairs and upgrades, suggesting 124 people left that part of the ballot blank.

The school district includes all of Ann Arbor plus portions of Ann Arbor, Lodi, Northfield, Pittsfield, Salem, Scio, Superior and Webster townships.

About 15 percent of voters in the village of Dexter (416 out of 2,837) went to the polls to decide the nine members who will serve on a special commission to draft a city charter as the village looks to become a city.

One of the strongest showings at the polls was in Chelsea where 22.5 percent of voters helped decide their next City Council leaders. In Milan, 16.5 percent of voters participated in electing their next City Council representatives.

The clerk's office has tallied write-in votes for Ann Arbor City Council. The counts show Chip Smith picked up 913 votes and Tom Partridge netted 14 votes in the 5th Ward race, while William Lockwood netted 84 votes in the 4th Ward race.

There were 209 total write-in votes in the 4th Ward race, suggesting as many as 125 might have gone to the 20-pound carp, but that remains a mystery for now.